importing HTML into FrameMaker?

Robert Lauriston robert at lauriston.com
Sat May 4 10:14:42 PDT 2013


I'll give that a try. The source is XHTML so I don't need to go
through RoboHelp.

I tried importing RoboHelp 9-generated XHTML to Structured FrameMaker
10 last year. It failed because RoboHelp generated invalid XHTML:

http://forums.adobe.com/message/4450928

On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 9:22 PM, Maxwell Hoffmann <mhoffman at adobe.com> wrote:
> Robert,
>
> If you or an associate have access to RoboHelp, you can open and save the HTML in RoboHelp, which saves it to XHTML. A slight modification to a structured FrameMaker app will open the XHTML as XML. Elements can be mapped to paragraph styles that match your existing unstructured FrameMaker document. Then you save the *.xml file as unstructured FrameMaker.
>
> I had a larger project that involved converting 400 Eclipse Help files from Dreamweaver into unstructured FrameMaker and this worked beautifully. You may find a simpler solution if you are not working with very much structure.



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